Project Crew Christopher Seufert - Producer/Director/Editor Christopher is the founder of Mooncusser Films.  He also recently produced documentaries about radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi (narrated by Walter Cronkite) and Fishtown, an educational series about the New England commercial fishing industry.  He is also in post production on a feature length documentary about the late artist /illustrator Edward Gorey, shot with Gorey between 1996 and the artist's death in April,2000 Jennifer Gibbons -  Additional Videography Jennifer is a documentary filmmaker based in Los Angeles, who works a day job at Eleven Sound Studios. Kelly Brennan- Production Intern Kelly is a documentary filmmaker based in Manhattan, currently working at the studio of reknown documentary producer Barbara Koppel. Jessica Ferguson -  Post Production Intern Jessica works on staff as Program Coordinator at Cape Cod Community Television.   She is also an editor on Global Productions' WheelsTV and on John Rega's Fooding Around and Restaurants and Inns television program.   She is also working on a documentary regarding the renovation of her house.   Adelyn Lee - Post Production Intern Adelyn has a BFA from Cornell University in Neurobiology. She has just recently switched over from pursuing medicine to pursuing filmmaking. Later in October, she is moving to Paris, France for further study. http://onesixty.blogspot.comhttp://onesixty.blogspot.comhttp://www.adelynlee.comshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2
Who Is Edward Gorey? A truly prodigious and original artist, Edward St. John Gorey (1925-2000), gave to the world over one hundred works, including The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Doubtful Guest and The Wuggly Ump; prize-winning set and costume designs for innumerable theater productions from Cape Cod to Broadway; a remarkable number of illustrations in publications such as The New Yorker and The New York Times, and in books by a wide array of authors from Charles Dickens to Edward Lear, Samuel Beckett, John Updike, Virginia Woolf, H.G. Wells, Florence Heide and many others. Born in Chicago,, Gorey came from a colorful family but had a rather normal childhood. He spent 1944–1946 in the Army at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, testing ground for mortars and poison gas. From 1946 to 1950, he attended Harvard University where he studied French and roomed with future poet Frank O'Hara. Although he would frequently state that his formal art training was "negligible," Gorey actually studied art for one semester at the Chicago Art Institute in 1943. From 1953 to 1960 he lived in New York City and worked for the Art Department of Doubleday Anchor as an illustrator. It was also in NYC where he became a loyal fan of the city ballet and has cited George Balanchine as one of his greatest influences. Gorey’s works possess an eerie, ominous air, frequently with Victorian and Edwardian underpinnings. He lent this macabre flair to the set design of the 1977 Broadway production of Dracula, for which he was nominated for a Tony award in Best Scenic Design and won for Best Costume Design. More well-known are his animated credits for the PBS Mystery! Series, which were received with critical acclaim and led to an avid following throughout the world. Gorey spent the later years of his life in Yarmouth, MA on Cape Cod where he remained an active figure in the local arts community. He wrote and directed numerous evening-length entertainments and collaborated with local talents. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=100122418

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Job Opportunity: Classical Pianist Needed


Description: We are looking for 3-5 classically trained pianists to perform works by Beethoven, Satie, Chopin, etc. for our upcoming feature-length Edward Gorey documentary film.


Qualifications: No original work required, as you will be performing the classical works mentioned above.


Application: Please send your resume and a CD (or mp3s), preferably consisting of samples from the works mentioned above to: Lucy@MooncusserFilms.com


or by mail to,


Attn: Gorey Pianist

Mooncusser Films, LLC

2469 Main St. - Floor 2

Chatham, MA 02669, USA

“The first things I wrote seriously, for some unknown reason, were plays. I think I may have copies of them...and I hope no one else has copies of them! But I wrote those when I was in the army and WWII and I don’t know why I decided to write. I suppose it must have been some strong, dramatic urge at the time but I never tried to get them put on, or anything.


They were all very exotic and filled with...they were pretentious in a

way and in another way, I don’t think they were as pretentious as they

might have been, let’s put it that way. I didn’t go in for endless,

dopey poetic monologues for people. They moved right along. They were rather  bizarre, I think, rather overwritten in a way. I don’t even

remember what they were about, if anything.”

                    -- Edward Gorey on his theatrical beginnings